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I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

- Ringo Starr

More, Feel, Finding Yourself, Handle

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

- Ringo Starr

Play, Other, Am, Foremost

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

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Study, Studied, Joined, Bands

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

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Move, Very, Far, Liverpool

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

- Ringo Starr

Play, Doing, Away, Liverpool

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

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May, Musical, Gene, Joke

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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Like, Poems, Beethoven

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

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Back, Studio, Had, Cuz

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

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Independence, Getting, His, Cuz

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.

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Big, Other, Putting, Titles

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

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Road, Favorite, Side, Abbey

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

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Drummer, Only, Wanted, Thirteen

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

- Ringo Starr

Important, Mean, Very, Women Are

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

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Alcohol, Emotions, Cut, In The End

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

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New, Feel, Here, Suited

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

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Works, Whole, Bugging, Beatle

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

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Thought, Other, Studio, Toured

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

- Ringo Starr

Wish, Away, Had, Memorabilia

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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Help, Friends, Get, Little Help

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

- Ringo Starr

Play, Big, I Remember, Gaps

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

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Practice, Play, Been, Sit

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

- Ringo Starr

Like, Made, Tracks, Download

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

- Ringo Starr

Myself, Person, Third, Laugh

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

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Some, Deal, Other, Problems

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

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Marriage, Concerned, Far, As Far As

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

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Want, Deal, Very, Front

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

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Women, Sleeping, Appear

Drumming is my middle name.

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Name, Middle, Drumming

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

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Reason, Broke, Finger, Spreading

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

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Important, White, Reasons, Band

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